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Post by QueenFoxy on Jan 20, 2020 9:29:51 GMT -6
✨30 Natives and The Creepiest Urban Legends In Their Country ~ 1. Sweden Here in Sweden I think the two spookiest ones are Näcken, a naked old man that lives in rivers and ponds and plays a violin that places you into a trance. He then lures you into whatever source of whatever he lives in and drowns you.
The second one is the Skogsrå, who’d be a lot creepier if it wasn’t for the fact that she doesn’t really do all that much. She looks like a beautiful woman from the front, but her back looks like a rotten treetrunk with a hole in it. She lurks near the edges of deep forests and tries to seduce men. If you treat her well you’ll be bestowed with luck, but if you treat her badly you will be tromented by decease (Disease) and death. ~
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Post by QueenFoxy on Jan 30, 2020 8:17:27 GMT -6
10. Finland
In Finnish pre-christian religion, there’s a creature called Näkki, that lives in lakes and rivers. It looks partially like a beautiful lady but it’s half fish and will drown you if you go to the water or get close to it. It’s used sometimes to scare children from going to the water unsupervised. ~
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Post by lostineternity99 on Jan 31, 2020 6:42:12 GMT -6
Sounds like an evil mermaid ... spooky win26
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Post by QueenFoxy on Jan 31, 2020 8:39:37 GMT -6
11. America
In the American Southwest, there is the Navajo culture’s “Skin Walker”. It’s an person versed in supernatural powers (witch doctors, etc) who have gone an extra step to committing some atrocity, like murder, and thereby gaining the ability to shape shift into an animal.
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Post by lostineternity99 on Feb 1, 2020 6:52:30 GMT -6
I did not know Skin Walkers were evil ... interesting  |
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 1, 2020 19:51:57 GMT -6
Yea!! We learned something.
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 1, 2020 19:55:43 GMT -6
12. Unknown Children and women would dance around a village fire and, during this process, everyone would write their names on rocks and place them in and around said fire. When the fire started to die out they would all run home- whereas if they stayed, ‘Yr Hwch Ddu Gwta’ (a bad omen that took the form of a tailless black sow with a headless woman) would devour their souls. Afterwards men would go from door to door holding a mare’s skull dressed as a ghost, decorated with jewellery and expensive garments – this ‘being’ is called ‘Mari Lwyd’ and she is created to ward off evil. The reason these men would visit each house was to cleanse the residents’ home so that they would be safe during the winter time when food was scarce. By not tipping the guests, bad spirits would remain in the residents’ homes, so the men sung, read poetry and even danced and the residents would then tip them with anything they had on hand (money, bread, beer etc.) and they would continue to do the same to the next house. With each house, they would become more and more jolly due to the fact that they would become progressively more intoxicated in the process. The following morning, a village elder would visit the dead fireplace around which the children and women had danced on the previous night. All the stones containing villagers’ names would be checked. If, however, a stone was missing, the person who wrote their name on the stone would die within one year. ~ |
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Post by lostineternity99 on Feb 2, 2020 5:51:41 GMT -6
I would not have wanted to live in this place  |
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 2, 2020 11:41:22 GMT -6
Nor would I, Rick.
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 2, 2020 11:46:16 GMT -6
13. Scotland
I’m from Scotland and we have quite a few.
There are ones that I find not so much creepy but definitely odd....haha.
Such as the Wulver, he was described as a man covered with brown hair on his body and having the head of a wolf. Though he was not malicious, apparently he was fond of fishing and would do so for hours even leaving fish on the windowsills of poor families.
And there is the Selkie, similar to a mermaid I suppose. These creatures had the skin of a seal but could shed them when they came to land. They often came to land to have children with the men there, only going back to find there skin and return to the ocean.
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Post by lostineternity99 on Feb 3, 2020 6:53:31 GMT -6
It is good to read about legends that are not evil  |
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 3, 2020 13:11:08 GMT -6
YES!!  |
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 3, 2020 13:16:00 GMT -6
14. Iceland
Nykur – Icelandic nightmare horse
A horse that hangs around lakes. If you touch it, you are glued to it. if anyone tries to help you by grabbing you and dragging you away, they are stuck to you. The nykur then walks into the lake and drowns you.
Why?
Because Nykur exists to take you out.
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Post by lostineternity99 on Feb 4, 2020 6:32:46 GMT -6
I shall stay away from Nykur infested lakes |
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 4, 2020 8:58:19 GMT -6
Never heard of that one, Rick. I've done a good job of avoiding him.
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 4, 2020 9:01:01 GMT -6
15. Ireland In Ireland we have a thing called the Kelpie. It basically looks like an average horse but it’s mane is always dripping wet. It lures Women and children into riding it, and when they get on it runs into water to drown them and later eat them. Never trust a European horse. ~ |
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Post by lostineternity99 on Feb 5, 2020 7:30:25 GMT -6
Guess I will not trust European horses ... LOL
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 5, 2020 12:13:07 GMT -6
Good choice!!
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 5, 2020 12:17:34 GMT -6
16. America Mothman.
He’s a creepy guy with glowing red eyes and hidden moth wings who walks along roads and neighborhoods at night. I remember a story of a mother playing with her family in their living room when she looked at the door window and saw him staring at them. When I was a kid I would always shut the blinds on all of the windows in our house, but there was one window in the kitchen without blinds. So most nights I would either go to bed hungry or sprint to get food, because if I did pass that window and there was a man’s face pressed against the glass then I would become a shrieking puddle of piss. And that would wake my parents up. ~ |
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Post by lostineternity99 on Feb 6, 2020 8:25:36 GMT -6
I would advise to eat earlier, if parents are asleep it is too late to eat! LOL
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 6, 2020 11:02:56 GMT -6
LOL!! I agree, Rick.
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 6, 2020 11:06:34 GMT -6
17. South Africa
In South Africa it is common for native Africans to sleep with their bed on top of bricks or other device to raise the bed. They believe in a creature called the Tokalosh which sits on your chest while you sleep and steals your breath causing you to gasp for air or even die. This is how it was described to me by my parents and saw multiple Africans beds which were abnormally high off the ground. ~ |
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Post by lostineternity99 on Feb 7, 2020 6:56:17 GMT -6
Sounds like a good precaution to take against this creature |
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 7, 2020 13:50:13 GMT -6
18. ChinaThe Chinese “zombie” or jiangshi (僵尸) is a mummified corpse that has risen from the dead for various reasons. They don’t eat brains, or flesh – they drain you of your life force. They cannot walk or bend their limbs due to rigor mortis, and as such hop after their prey. That may sound silly at first, but imagine it. Actually imagine walking on a dark road at midnight, by a graveyard. And as the cold night air brushes against your ear, you hear something. Something like footsteps, only heavier, pounding through the grass, stirring the cool air behind you: Thump. Thump. Thump. You don’t want to look back. You don’t want to look back. Thump. Thump. Thump. I had nightmares about it when I first learned of it. Of it hopping in the dark. Its outstretched arms, wrinkled grey skin, legs locked together, dead face in a slack, frozen leer. Thump. Thump. Thump. ~
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Post by lostineternity99 on Feb 8, 2020 6:41:00 GMT -6
Spooky China is too far away so no thump thump thump for me! |
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Post by QueenFoxy on Feb 8, 2020 8:26:32 GMT -6
19. Russia In Russian Folklore there is a character named Baba Yega. She is an old woman who lives in the deep forest in a wooden house with chicken legs. She eats people who come upon her dwelling. She’s supposed to have iron teeth, and is as old as the world itself. She knows everything, and if you can survive her tasks and display proper respect and manners, she MIGHT let you ask a question. Her size varies according to the tale; many say she takes up most of the room in her house (nose up the chimney, sleeping on the stove, feet against the door). Some say she looks like an overgrown hill with mossy trees and stones, until it speaks to you. Her Sons are Dawn, Noon, and Night, and She may be the remnants of an ancient Goddess, like Black Annis. ~ |
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